There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.